Virginia
Tichenor has been consumed by ragtime her entire life, as the
daughter of Trebor Tichenor, the noted ragtime scholar, pianist, collector
and founder of the St. Louis Ragtimers. She studied music at the St.
Louis Community Association for the Arts and took advanced training from
concert pianist, John Phillips. Always at the crossroads of the ragtime
revival, her parental home houses the world's largest library of ragtime
sheet music and piano rolls. Virginia grew up with legends like Eubie Blake,
Max Morath and Butch Thompson chatting in her own living room. Her father
is advisor-confidant for most of the ragtime community, so Virginia often
heard new rags when they were forming in the minds of their composers.
The topic of her college research project? The ragtime revival, of course!
In 1998, Virginia released her first solo recording, a CD entitled Virginia's
Favorites. It includes four two-piano duets with her father, Trebor.

She is the Vice President, and past President, of the West Coast Ragtime Society.